In this image released by XCOR, The lynx engine is shown running for the first time at XCOR’s test facilities at the Mojave Air and Space Port in Mojave, CA. December 17, 2008, Mojave, CA: XCOR ...

Image: A schlieren image of the Lynx supersonic wind tunnel model at mach 4.0, 10 degree angle of attack at the NASA MSFC supersonic wind tunnel in Huntsville, AL. Image: A schlieren image of the Lynx ...

XCOR Aerospace today announced the grand prize winner of a trip aboard the Lynx Mark I suborbital launch vehicle. XCOR Chief Operating Officer Andrew Nelson made the announcement at the Spacecraft ...

Beginning in 2010, the California-based company expects to transport paying customers into a 38-mile suborbital flight to experience weightlessness and "to see the stars above and the Earth and its ...

A rival to Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space tourism venture is wooing potential buyers who might wish to bring the prospect of space travel to the UAE. Andrew Nelson, COO of US-based XCOR ...

California-based XCOR Aerospace is expected to become the first commercial reusable launch vehicle (RLV) developer to receive a launch license from the FAA's Office of Commercial Space Transportation ...

This story was updated at 3:18 p.m. EDT. A private rocket-building company that is designing a suborbital space plane for future paid trips to the edge of space will open a new test facility in Texas, ...

MIDLAND - XCOR sending people up to space has been in talks for a while. Monday officials made an announcement that could help their mission take off more easily. XCOR has acquired a Company called ...

Spaceplane developer XCOR Aerospace has filed for bankruptcy. XCOR operated from the Mojave Desert in California (although officially is headquartered in Midland, Texas) where it has spent the best ...

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Mojave-based space vehicle maker XCOR Aerospace said this morning that it has raised $14.2M in a Series B funding round. The company--which is in the midst of developing a reusable, rocket-powered ...